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OC/WR Coach Brian Hartline (Official Thread)

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Which Buckeye had the greatest impact on the Ohio State history of the position he played?

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Dolphins rookie WR Brian Hartline proves to be a quick study
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
August 26, 2009

DAVIE - Brian Hartline admits it. He can be a pest.

That's why it seems every time you look up this preseason, the rookie wide receiver from Ohio State is sidling up to Chad Pennington, asking another question of the Miami Dolphins quarterback.

"I'm a guy that just likes to stay in a quarterback's ear," Hartline says, "to a point where they might tell me to get away. I'm just hoping to learn from a veteran like him."

If you want to know how a fourth-round pick like Hartline -- who caught just 21 passes his final season in a revamped Buckeyes offense -- has managed to move into the starting lineup so quickly, the answer lies in the questions he's constantly asking.

See, as the Miami Dolphins prepare to play their third exhibition game tonight at Tampa Bay, it turns out Pennington isn't the first Chad that Hartline has latched onto in an effort to shorten his learning curve.

As a freshman at GlenOak High School in Canton, Ohio, the skinny 130-pounder rarely gave Chad Palmer a rest. Palmer wasn't just Hartline's science teacher. The former Akron University track standout doubled as the school's hurdles instructor, and after a little urging Hartline became one of his most enthusiastic pupils.

"I talked to his parents after middle school and told them I thought Brian would make a great hurdler," Palmer says. "I had seen him in the high jump and running the 800 [meters]. They looked at me kind of weird."

After Hartline knocked down six hurdles in his first indoor race -- the five in his lane and one more in a competitor's -- his mother walked up to Palmer and suggested they end the experiment.

Hartline wouldn't hear of it. He just kept asking questions and researching his craft until he reached the point where he could coach other hurdlers, including younger brother Michael (now Kentucky's starting quarterback).

"Once Brian saw what he had to do, he kept coming to me for constant feedback," says Palmer, a track coach for the past 16 years. "He asked a million questions. He's a very sharp kid, a very kinesthetic kid, and he likes to make his learning curve very short."

In his next race, Hartline cleared every hurdle. By his junior year he reached the state finals of the 300-meter hurdles. As a senior, the boy who once trained in the Bird Leg group at GlenOak, was state champion.

He did this roughly eight months after breaking his leg on a season-opening kickoff return.

"Brian wasn't the best person out there in terms of speed," Palmer says. "He outhurdled everybody because of his technique."

Hartline dabbled in track at Ohio State. As a sophomore he finished seventh in the Big Ten in the 60-meter indoor hurdles.

That same intellectual curiosity also served Hartline well on the football field, where he made 90 catches in his three seasons before graduating with a degree in strategic communications.
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Miami Dolphins: Rookie WR Brian Hartline a quick study with Miami Dolphins -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
 
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The fact that two Buckeyes will be playing a lot of WR for the Dolphins, and virtualy all of their games are on TV in South Florida, shouldn't hurt tOSU's chances of continuing to recruit WRs from the Sunshine State.
 
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BB73;1523599; said:
The fact that two Buckeyes will be playing a lot of WR for the Dolphins, and virtualy all of their games are on TV in South Florida, shouldn't hurt tOSU's chances of continuing to recruit WRs from the Sunshine State.
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Yep... And another long catch by Hartline. There's every chance that they will be Miami's top 2 receivers. Very useful for us to have that going down there. And we have Carter at STA :)
 
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MiamiHerald
Miami Dolphins rookie Brian Hartline impresses in start

The competition just got more interesting as rookie receiver Brian Hartline led Miami with three catches in Thursday night's game.

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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline makes a nice catch behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Elbert Mack in the first quarter of a preseason game on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Hartline was charged with pushing off for an offensive pass interference penalty. JOE RIMKUS JR. / STAFF PHOTO

BY SCOTT PURKS

Special to The Miami Herald

TAMPA --Brian Hartline has been nothing if not persistent.
Always.
And it appears that personality trait might pay off -- big time -- for the Dolphins.
Case in point was Thursday night's preseason game in Tampa.
Hartline, a fourth-round pick out of Ohio State, got his first start in a Miami uniform and ended up making the most of it: For the game, mostly against the Buccaneers' starting group, Hartline led Miami with three catches for 79 yards.
The most telling catch, perhaps, was a 54-yarder early in the third quarter to Tampa's 6-yard line, which set up a 2-yard touchdown toss to tight end Anthony Fasano.
No doubt this is exactly the type of thing coach Tony Sparano was looking for: Another solid receiver to compliment quarterback Chad Pennington's penchant for hitting multiple targets.
If Hartline pans out, Pennington's numbers could shoot into the stratosphere.
Consider that last season Pennington completed 67.4 percent of his passes for 3,653 yards and did it by hitting 14 different receivers. Six of those guys had more than 30 catches and three -- Ted Ginn Jr., Greg Camarillo and Davone Bess -- had more than 50.
When it was announced this week that Hartline was getting the start Thursday, Sparano was questioned as to what this meant in regards to who would start opposite Ginn.
Sparano played it rather close to the vest.
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Hartline makes his move for starting job
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on August 28, 2009


It's always difficult to project what rookie wide receivers will succeed in the NFL, and 2009 is shaping up to be as unpredictable as ever.
San Francisco's Michael Crabtree remains a holdout and Philadelphia's Jeremy Maclin is trying to hold on to a gig on special teams.

Cleveland's Brian Robiskie was expected to be the most "pro-ready" rookie, but he's been outplayed by his supposedly "raw" rookie teammate Mohammad Massaquoi.

Oakland is currently starting two rookies at wideout, but most observers would tell you that fourth-round pick Louis Murphy looks as good or better than top-ten pick Darrius Heyward-Bey.

Perhaps the most surprising rookie receiver story is unfolding in Miami, where Robiskie's old college teammate Brian Hartline is making a serious run at a starting flanker job opposite Ted Ginn.

Hartline started Thursday night and led the team with three catches, five targets, and 79 yards. No other receiver had more than one catch or three targets with the starting unit. (Ted Ginn has been invisible all preseason.) The starting job was expected to go to Davone Bess (who caught 54 passes as an undrafted rookie) or Greg Camarillo.

Hartline's ascension could leave last year's surprise Camarillo planted on the bench. Camarillo caught a 52-yard pass late in Thursday's game, but his post-ACL surgery lack of speed showed up dramatically on the play.

The Miami passing game wasn't flashy last year, but it was awfully efficient. If Hartline steps up, Chad Pennington should have an improved young wideout group. And we haven't even mentioned Hartline's rookie teammate Patrick Turner.

Turner, of course, was drafted a round ahead of Hartline.
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Hartline makes his move for starting job | ProFootballTalk.com
 
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Anybody else notice that when he has a ball coming his way that's a little high, he always turns his entire body around to try to make the grab?

It's interesting to note because this really prevents him from taking that grab into a good YAC opportunity. When he does make the catch he is turned around, and then just falls backward.

Not that I'm complaining, I'm not really a Dolphin fan - I just want to see if anyone else notices that. He did it here as well.
 
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Anybody else notice that when he has a ball coming his way that's a little high, he always turns his entire body around to try to make the grab?

It's interesting to note because this really prevents him from taking that grab into a good YAC opportunity. When he does make the catch he is turned around, and then just falls backward.

Not that I'm complaining, I'm not really a Dolphin fan - I just want to see if anyone else notices that. He did it here as well.
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Did it at OSU too, at least last year. I kind of dubbed him "the Amazing Falling Hartline", because there were a lot of plays that could have seen YAC that ended with him on the ground.

Hey, at least he's catching the ball!
 
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